Arian Van Putten
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Self-employed
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolArian Van Putten is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer based in Berlin with 15 years of experience building reliable, infrastructure-first back ends and tooling. He blends deep theoretical expertise in type theory, functional programming and compilers with pragmatic DevOps skills, having led platform migrations to Kubernetes and implemented CI/CD, on-prem and cloud deployments. A prolific open-source contributor, he has direct patches in high-profile projects like systemd and the AWS Terraform provider and has improved logging, IPv6 support and core system utilities. At Wire he led platform and integrations work and built SSO and on-prem offerings; today he focuses on infrastructure at Mercury while maintaining several NixOS and Haskell projects. Known for clean, maintainable contributions, he often surfaces subtle systems issues—such as SecureBoot EFI handling and precise journal matching—that improve operational robustness.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Type Theory, Certificate, Type Theory at EUTypes Summer School on Type Theory (COST action CA15123)Master of Science (MSc), Computing Science, Master of Science (MSc), Computing Science at Utrecht UniversityHigh School, pre-university secondary education (VWO), High School, pre-university secondary education (VWO) at Gertrudiscollege
Dutch, English
Github Skills (27)
ec10
apidoc10
init10
linux10
c1110
terraform10
c1710
terraformer10
amazon-ec210
go10
api10
network-interface10
aws10
systemd10
logging10
Programming languages (36)
Github contributions (5)
wireapp/wire-server
Jun 2019 - Jan 2022
🇪🇺 Wire back-end services
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 61 reviews, 206 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Arian primarily worked on back-end services, particularly focusing on improving logging mechanisms and adding features related to legal hold functionalities. Their contributions involved modifying code in various services such as `cannon`, `proxy`, and `spar`, as well as the `api-client` library. The user also added new features for logging in JSON format, demonstrating a focus on code maintainability and feature additions within the Wire back-end services.
golangreactrusthaskellnodejs
haskell-servant/servant
Oct 2015 - Jan 2022
Servant is a Haskell DSL for describing, serving, querying, mocking, documenting web applications and more!
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 reviews, 36 commits, 29 PRs in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Arian primarily contributed to refactoring and updating the codebase of `servant`, a Haskell DSL for web applications. Their work involved converting existing code to use `Data.Text` for string manipulation, impacting multiple modules within the project, notably `servant-foreign` and `servant-js`. They also made changes related to Cabal configuration and test suite fixes, demonstrating a focus on code quality and maintainability.
web-applicationsservingqueryinghaskelldsl
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